OLE TAKES REINS BEFORE BID TO LAND POCH
vice-chairman Ed Woodward at 9am yesterday and told of his dismissal after two-and-ahalf years in charge.
Woodward and executive co-chairman Joel
Glazer spoke on
Monday night and decided to act with
United 19 points behind Premier
League leaders
Liverpool, 11 points adrift of fourth spot and players disillusioned with Mourinho, who is set for a £15million pay-off.
Solskjaer, a club legend whose dramatic goal in added time clinched the Champions League and the Treble in 1999, is manager of FC Molde in his native Norway.
It is understood he has a clause in his contract allowing him to leave for United, who will pay £1.8m to the Norwegian club. He is set to return to Molde at the end of the Premier League season, but if appointed permanently, it will cost United £8m. But the club plan to appoint a director of football as part of a major restructure.
His first game in the dugout will be on Saturday at Cardiff, the club he left after an ill-fated nine-month spell in charge in 2014, after they were relegated from the Premier League under him.
Solskjaer will be helped by Sir Alex Ferguson’s former No.2 Mike Phelan
(left).
Pochettino is United’s No.1 target, although Spurs chairman Daniel Levy will fight any approach for him. But the Reds, looking for a fourth manager since Fergie quit in 2013, are ready to pay whatever it takes.